Wufengella

Wufengella
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Superphylum: Lophotrochozoa
Order: Tommotiida
Genus: †Wufengella
Guo et al., 2022
Species:
†W. bengtsoni
Binomial name
†Wufengella bengtsoni
Guo et al., 2022

Wufengella is a genus of extinct camenellan "tommotiid" that lived during the Early Cambrian (Stage 3). Described in 2022, the only species Wufengella bengtsoni was discovered from the Maotianshan Shales of Chiungchussu (Qiongzhusi) Formation in Yunnan, China. The fossil indicates that the animal was an armoured worm that close to the common ancestry of the phyla Brachiozoa and Bryozoa, which are collectively grouped into a clade called Lophophorata.

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